20. at the end of about four hundred and fifty years. After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.
21. Then they asked for a king. God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22. Then he removed him and raised up David as their king; of him he testified, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will carry out my every wish.’
23. From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise, has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus.
24. John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel;
25. and as John was completing his course, he would say, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’
26. “My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.
27. The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath.
28. For even though they found no grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him put to death,
29. and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.
30. But God raised him from the dead,
31. and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are [now] his witnesses before the people.